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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000067/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Suhair was born in Irbid in 1952. Her father was a graduate of the American University of Cairo, a poet and a member of the Jordanian Communist Party. Her mother was also close to the Communist Party. Following the repression of the Jordanian Nationalist Movement in 1957, her family was forced to flee to Syria. Upon returning to Jordan, her father was arrested and jailed for 1 year. After the 1967 war, Suhair became involved in the New Left and Palestinian resistance movements. She joined the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine but left due to what she regarded as sexism in the movement. In 1970, Suhair left Jordan to attend university in Yugoslavia, but following the ‘Black September’ events of 1970 she went to Beirut to study for a BA in accounting. She enjoyed the intellectual and cultural life of Beirut and began working as a journalist for Al-Dustor magazine. After the war broke out in Beirut, Suhair shuttled between Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait and Italy. After returning to Jordan in 1983, she re-engaged with political activism, joining the Jordanian Women’s Union, Journalists’ Syndicate and Writers' Union. She became disillusioned with the way in which women’s rights issues were always subordinated to political partisan concerns. Afterwards she worked with the Jordanian Association for Human Rights, writing for their magazine and conducting training courses. At the time of the interview, she was focusing on her writing, having recently published her book, Tarikh al-haraka al-nisa’iya al-urdunniya, 1944-2008. ( en )
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- Funding : Women's Activism in the Arab World (2013-2016). This project, funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, examines the significance of middle-class women's activism to the geo/politics of Arab countries, from national independence until the Arab uprisings. It was based on over 100 personal narratives of women activists of different generations from Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
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- Interview conducted on: 14 May 2014
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- Duration: 1 hour, 49 minutes and 40 seconds
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- Language of Interview: Arabic
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- Audio transcription and translation by Captivate Arabia, Amman, Jordan, info@captivatearabia.com
- General Note:
- آسيا -- الأردن -- عَمّان -- عَمّان
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- VIAF (name authority) : Pratt, Nicola Christine : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/49147457
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- VIAF (name authority) : Tall, Suhayr Salṭī : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/63125295
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- University of Warwick
- Rights Management:
- © 2014 the Interviewer and Interviewee. All rights reserved. Used here with permission.
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